Program Goals
This program nurtures collaborative work that will be useful to participants’ departments by helping faculty develop concrete plans, pedagogical approaches, and resources grounded in disciplinary needs. For example, participants may create pedagogical resources that can be used across courses, design programs that invite colleagues to build disciplinary AI literacy, or develop new approaches to teaching key genres or concepts. Over the course of the year, participants’ own sense of their departmental and disciplinary priorities will increasingly shape both the focus and direction of the program.
This program is distinct from the Provost’s AI Fellows program in that it
- invites pairs of faculty from participating departments
- has an academic‑year‑long structure
- is supports collaborative department‑focused work as units adjust to this technological moment.
What Participants Will Do
Participants will:
- Explore and co-create an understanding of how departments and disciplines respond to, and engage, or not, in uses of generative AI.
- identify curricular priorities, AI frameworks, and disciplinary opportunities for AI engagement
- Create participant-driven support structures such as cohort partnerships, outreach tools, and repositories to advance key skills and support each other's generative AI investigations and innovations.
- Support one another in developing a department plan or resources for deepening engagement with generative AI, which may focus on pedagogy, teaching discipline-specific genres or concepts, and/or advancing unit-level dialogue and initiatives around generative AI.
Faculty Teams
The program is organized for pairs of faculty who come from the same department or program. During the program, participants will meet monthly (so applying pairs should have a reasonable degree of common availability), read relevant short resources, and collaborate on identifying pedagogical challenges, opportunities, and obstacles.
The program has space for teams from up to 10 departments or programs.
Additional Benefits
Participants who complete the program will each receive a $400 professional development stipend.
Applying to Participate
Please complete this short form to apply to participate as soon as you are able and by May 3rd. If you have not discussed this with your department chair, we encourage you to do so, so they are aware of your intent. If multiple people from your department apply, we'll choose a pair that has overlapping availability.